introduction: the purpose of this study was comparison of three different methods of presenting tv programs and their impacts on receptive language of deaf people in two stages of consideration in isfahanian population. (1- providing program by sign language and lip reading method; presented by a deaf interpreter 2- providing program by lip reading method; presented by a tv broadcaster 3- provi...

We propose that enjoyment is an important factor in the adoption and long-term maintenance of exercise. Television (TV) viewing is believed to be a highly enjoyed leisure-time activity, combining it with exercise may make for a more enjoyable exercise experience. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of television (TV) viewing on psychological and physiological variables during...

In this paper, we propose a method for dynamic integration of TV-program content and related web content and demonstrate our prototype system called WebTelop . The primary source of information in WebTelop is the TV-program content. Web pages related to the TV-program content are retrieved automatically in real time and are used to augment the TV-program content in the form of captions. Our met...

This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised TV programs structuring. Program structuring allows direct and non linear access to the desired parts of a program. Our work addresses the structuring of recurrent TV programs like news, entertainment programs, TV shows, TV magazines... In our previous work [1] we proposed a program structuring method based on the detection of video recurrences. ...

This article focuses on the German television (“TV”) market from an antitrust perspective, limited to some competition aspects of the technical and program side of the German TV market. On the technical side, we are in a situation of an emerging market for digital TV where a TV household needs a decoder in order to transfer digital TV signals into analog TV signals, because most households stil...

The Ethiopian development plans have dealt with education sector as a key strategic pillar. There have been a lot of educational efforts. Especially to cope with lack of qualified teachers, lack of good teaching models, and remote rural regions separated from educational benefits, Ethiopian Ministry of Education has made efforts in utilizing educational media such as satellite TV program for im...

Traditional electronic program guides (EPGs) cannot be used to find popular TV programs. A personalized digital video broadcasting – terrestrial (DVB-T) digital TV program recommendation system is ideal for providing TV program suggestions based on statistics results obtained from analyzing largescale data. The frequency and duration of the programs that users have watched are collected and wei...

Automatic identification of TV programs within TV streams is an important task for archive exploitation. This paper proposes a new spatial-temporal approach to identify programs in TV streams in two main steps: First, a reference catalogue for video grammars of visual jingles is constructed. We exploit visual grammars characterizing instances of the same program type in order to identify the va...